Repost in r/funny this morning, facebook post with condescending comment. These posters are afraid of me. I have seen their true face. Their pages are extended circlejerks and the comment threads are full of rehashed memes and when the posts are finally hidden due to too many negative votes, all the vermin will be downvoted to oblivion. The accumulated filth of all their tired humor and uninspired puns will foam up about their waists and all the atheists and 99%ers will look up and shout "Save us, Coneman!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

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"That is incredibly rude! Your comment has been forwarded to the Secret Service for sedition against these great United States. Did you know that bears have the strongest sense of smell of any mammal? I bet that's beary handy!"

I know it's wrong, but I always feel like company twitter accounts are just automated robots posting drivel. Deep down I know that there is some marketing intern writing updates for all these things, but it takes things like this to make me realize that they actually exist.

Companies generally keep the social media interns on a VERY short leash, for good reason (unfortunately). Whenever we see a post about a companies twitter saying something absolutely terrible, it is the company saying that, not the intern. The board of directors does not authorize or deny every tweet. So when the social media guy gets pissed off and says something he shouldn't, he is speaking AS the company. That means VERY bad PR for the company.

Yep, that has been my job for a while. If you fuck up on Twitter or Facebook, the company looks like it fucked up. But it really depends of the company and how easy-going it is. Ubisoft is pretty easy going in the mentality, they like to party and enjoy themselves at work. It shows in their PR and social media communications. KPMG might be the exact opposite, for example.

It can sound ironic, indeed. However, I think these two aspects of Ubisoft are not incompatible. But I think that those restrictive and unfun measures that Ubisoft has regarding DRM and fighting piracy is the result of politics from the high-levels execs in the company.

However the mood in the offices is really fun and relaxed amongst the creatives and the developpers. Some employees there described me how it goes on and how everybody's chill, because they noticed that that's how creativity starts. They have big parties on fridays, organize events and music gigs ont their roof, everybody's young and friendly, etc etc. Ubisoft became actually a model when they opened their office in Montreal in the 90's, and the other video game companies that implanted offices in Montreal quickly followed that kind of relaxed and open work environment. The EA offices are far from being as open than the Ubisoft's one, but they still had to be competitive from Ubi, and because this helps creativity.

So I totally get you about the restrictive DRM and the shit that it brings to gaming and the whole relationship between developpers and gamers, but if I had to name a company where it is fun to work in, Ubi is on my list for sure.

If anybody is curious about the reasons that pushed so many video game companies to get an office in Montreal in the 90's, it's because local politics at the time started to see that it would be a ground breaking industry and lowered taxes for companies that would produce virtual entertainment. And now, Montreal is one of the cities where video game come to life.

UGH. those 'interesting facts' twitter accounts are the worst. Some of them post things that are blatantly false and my retarded friends retweet them "OmG I had no ideaaaaaa #cantbelievethisistrue #hashtag #wowfacts"

I wonder how they were able to gather the data for all of the bears in that time period. Maybe they had many forest rangers who were assigned a few different bears to keep info on them so that this game would be historically accurate several hundred years later.

A couple of year ago, when AC2 was released, i started to boycott Ubisoft, because i didn't agree with unbelievable rude DRM. It seems things is turning back to good lately, when Ubi can make a joke. Probably some good guy took over and made Ubi a bit better company again.